The Box (movie)

Take, for example, last year, when Tom Hanks and friends came to Norfolk and Virginia Beach to film "Captain Phillips," a dramatization of the recent incident in which Somali pirates took over a U.S. cargo ship. That film is scheduled to hit theaters in October, and Hanks may be looking at an Academy Award nomination.

If you wanted to make a point of watching movies with local connections to the Peninsula and to South Hampton Roads, you would be able to see some really good titles. (You wouldn't even have to include the egregious sci-fi turkey...

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Hampton Roads isn't Hollywood.
But sometimes, every so often, we act like it is.
Take, for example, last year, when Tom Hanks and friends came to Norfolk and Virginia Beach to film "Captain Phillips," a dramatization of the recent incident in which...